Features

Envoy Development improves operational efficiency and reduces costs by supplying patented data analytics software and services to companies that have a process data historian. In short, we mine historians in real time to identify exceptions, issues, and opportunities. We do this as a service, or we license our software to you.

Envoy’s customers are from a wide range of industries including include pulp and paper, oil and gas, mining and minerals, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.

Why Envoy?

Exasperated by issues that should have been identified are missed, causing downtime or higher costs

Frustrated by the limitations of using trends and spreadsheets to identify process exceptions

Confident that they can track their major KPIs, but concerned thousands of other variables go unnoticed until too late

Tired of training new process engineers to use expensive boutique software only to see them leave the position and turn that software into shelf-ware

Apprehensive that the knowledge of older workers is not captured and codified

Skeptical of data provided by PMC and chemical vendors when evaluating performance

Aware that engineers with deep process knowledge are invaluable, but just can’t afford them

Feel pinched by larger vendors who do less but charge more

Our customers rave about our software and services because:

Every day we identify exceptions in their process that deserve their attention, possible reasons for the exceptions, what they did the last time the exceptions happened, and recommended actions in a manner that can be read in under two minutes

Through the feedback we receive, we share our knowledge library that allows them to take advantage of the hundreds of processes we monitor

They don’t have to look at hundreds of trends: if there is a variable outside of its normal operating envelope, we identify it

Unlike all other data analytics software, we calculate targets and limits by grade, production rate, or custom query. Automatically, with daily updates

We identify when KPIs changed and what tags changed at the same time. If chemical costs, breaks on a paper machine, or TRS on a boiler increased on Nov 1, we can tell you every tag in your historian that changed on that day

We can evaluate a chemical or clothing trial within minutes, identifying not only what changed, but ensuring the timing of the change matched the trial dates

Envoy Process Monitor not only alerts variables outside of their normal limits, it monitors for exceptional variation as well